Re:You don't ever own an electric vehicle
by orangepurple on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:56PM
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The Chinese are our last hope. Since they have total disregard for IP and NDAs we can get scanners and tools from them that actually let us circumvent arbitrary manufacturer limitations
Re:You don't ever own an electric vehicle
by userbinator on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:29AM
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Electric cars aren’t new, they’ve been around since the 90s
The 1890s, to be precise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Parker_Electric_ca...
An electric car, for all intents and purposes should be substantially easier to repair, diagnose, and work on, but manufacturers are doing things like using proprietary signaling protocols, locking out third party parts, and putting complex software in the place of simple and reliable hardware. Electric cars aren’t new, they’ve been around since the 90s and it was perfectly possible to create one without the “smart” nonsense we are seeing today. My car doesn’t need to report my location to a database or have a manufacturer kill-switch and it doesn’t make one a Luddite for feeling that way.